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Soya Park, MIT CSAIL
MIT news article

CSAIL team studies what email users want for better automating email — and proposes "YouPS" filtering tool.

While there’ve been several developments since then, the one-size-fits-all approach of apps like Gmail still leaves many users sifting, clicking, and separating until what can feel like the end of time.

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) decided to dig deeper into people’s specific needs through a three-part study and new open-source tool that lets users write, test, and hone simple Python scripts for controlling incoming emails.

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Kevin Sun, Andrew He and Yinzhan Xu (photo credit Bob Smith)
CSAIL article

MIT placed first among all North American teams - and second globally - at the World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery's 43rd annual International College Programming Contest (ICPC) in Porto, Portugal.

The world's most prestigious programming contest, ICPC involves 300,000 students from two thousand universities and nearly 100 countries, with only the top 128 teams earning a spot in the finals.

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Algorand
External articles

Algorand, an open-source software and blockchain technology company, announced today the opening of its TestNet to the public at large. After a successful private TestNet period with several hundred participants, the company is now inviting all businesses, developers and users to engage with TestNet and provide feedback on the quality, function, and overall experience of the TestNet protocol.

Hal Abelson
Principal Investigator, MIT CSAIL
Creator, MIT App Inventor
Professor, MIT CSAIL
Programming Languages & Software Engineering